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A miner, who was trapped underground for two months in the Sane José Copper-Gold Mine in Copiapó, Chile in 2010, gives his first interview after being rescued. Nicknamed “Super Mario” after coming out of the mine very energized and presenting gifts of rocks to his rescuers, Mario Sepulveda talks about reconnecting with his family after the 69 days he spent underground with 32 other miners. He describes how he wrote a letter to his children in which he wrote that he lived a happy life and that their mother would take care of them. Many of “Los 33,” as they were called, thought that they would not make it out of the collapsed mineshaft alive, but in the end, each of the 33 trapped miners was rescued successfully. Sepulveda describes the sight of the drill poking into the cave in which they were located as a miracle and said that the miners “cried and thanked God” when it happened.
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